Office of Global Engagement

Activities and Events
Saturday, November 16, 2024

• 7:30pm @ Music Department’s Barbara Smith Amphitheater | Javanese Gamelan Concert 
  Kickstart International Education Week early by enjoying a Concert of Javanese Gamelan Music by the UHM Gamelan Ensemble! This concert will include music from both the Yogyakarta and Surakarta gamelan traditions, plus two selections in remembrance of founding director Hardy Susilo’s 90th birthday.

You may sign up for tickets here.

Monday, November 18, 2024

• 9:00-10:00am HST via Zoom | NSE Virtual Fair – Study Abroad in Canada
  Join us for the National Student Exchange (NSE) Virtual Fair as part of International Education Week! This online event offers a fantastic chance to learn about NSE’s opportunities for domestic exchange programs across the U.S. and Canada, enabling students to experience new academic and cultural environments without going abroad. Connect with representatives, ask questions, and explore the possibilities of expanding your college experience through NSE. Visit our website for event details and discover how you can gain valuable perspectives while staying closer to home!
  • Hear about these campuses:

    1. U of Regina
    2. Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
    3. U of Calgary
    4. U of Alberta
    5. Université de Montréal

Please register here. Full schedule may be found here.

• 10:00-11:00am HST via Zoom | NSE Virtual Fair – Wilderness and Adventure Campuses
  Join us for the National Student Exchange (NSE) Virtual Fair as part of International Education Week! This online event offers a fantastic chance to learn about NSE’s opportunities for domestic exchange programs across the U.S. and Canada, enabling students to experience new academic and cultural environments without going abroad. Connect with representatives, ask questions, and explore the possibilities of expanding your college experience through NSE. Visit our website for event details and discover how you can gain valuable perspectives while staying closer to home!
  • Hear about these campuses:
    1. U of Alaska Fairbanks
    2. Utah State U
    3. U of New Mexico
    4. U of Colorado Colorado Springs
    5. U of Alaska Anchorage
    6. U of Idaho
    7. Southern Utah U
    8. SUNY Potsdam

Please register here. Full schedule may be found here.

• 11:00-12:00pm HST via Zoom | NSE Virtual Fair – Hidden Gems: Connecting with Campuses off the Beaten Path
  Join us for the National Student Exchange (NSE) Virtual Fair as part of International Education Week! This online event offers a fantastic chance to learn about NSE’s opportunities for domestic exchange programs across the U.S. and Canada, enabling students to experience new academic and cultural environments without going abroad. Connect with representatives, ask questions, and explore the possibilities of expanding your college experience through NSE. Visit our website for event details and discover how you can gain valuable perspectives while staying closer to home!
  • Hear about these campuses:
    1. Western Oregon U
    2. Lewis-Clark State College (ID)
    3. Sonoma State U (CA)
    4. Keene State College (NH)
    5. Michigan Technological U
    6. Central Arkansas U
    7. California State U Chico
    8. St. Cloud State U (MN)
    9. Fort Hays State U (KS)
    10. Thomas Jefferson U (PA)

Please register here. Full schedule may be found here.

• 3:30-4:30pm HST @ Campus Center 203E | The Intertidal Chat – A Professional Development Series
  Join in on a Mellon-funded program advancing Asian American and Pacific Islander voices in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice (AAPI EHEJ for short) will be hosting a professional development panel with CPIS MA student Kenji Cataldo and CPIS Associate Professor Dr. Tarcisius Kabutaulaka on podcasts as a medium for collaborative storytelling. It is open to the public and free to attend.

Snacks and drinks are provided!

No registration required. Please see below the flyer for further information.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

• 9:00-10:00am HST via Zoom | NSE Virtual Fair – Great NSE Roadtrip
  Join us for the National Student Exchange (NSE) Virtual Fair as part of International Education Week! This online event offers a fantastic chance to learn about NSE’s opportunities for domestic exchange programs across the U.S. and Canada, enabling students to experience new academic and cultural environments without going abroad. Connect with representatives, ask questions, and explore the possibilities of expanding your college experience through NSE. Visit our website for event details and discover how you can gain valuable perspectives while staying closer to home!
  • Hear about these campuses:
    1. Sam Houston State U (TX)
    2. U of Wisconsin – La Crosse
    3. Minnesota State U Mankato
    4. U of Georgia
    5. Colorado Mesa U
    6. U of Minnesota Duluth
    7. Northern Arizona U
    8. California Polytechnic State U – SLO

Please register here. Full schedule may be found here.

• 10:00-11:00pm HST via Zoom | NSE Virtual Fair – NSE Alumni Panel
  Join us for the National Student Exchange (NSE) Virtual Fair as part of International Education Week! This online event offers a fantastic chance to learn about NSE’s opportunities for domestic exchange programs across the U.S. and Canada, enabling students to experience new academic and cultural environments without going abroad. Connect with representatives, ask questions, and explore the possibilities of expanding your college experience through NSE. Visit our website for event details and discover how you can gain valuable perspectives while staying closer to home!
  • Hear from students who attended these campuses:
    1. Mississippi State U to William Patterson U
    2. Oakland U to Sonoma State U
    3. Iowa State U to U of Alaska Southeast
    4. U of Nebraska Kearny to SUNY Plattsburgh
    5. Thomas Jefferson U to U of New Mexico
    6. Indiana U Indianapolis to Universite de Sherbrooke

Please register here. Full schedule may be found here.

• 11:00-12:00pm HST via Zoom | NSE Virtual Fair – Big City Campuses
  Join us for the National Student Exchange (NSE) Virtual Fair as part of International Education Week! This online event offers a fantastic chance to learn about NSE’s opportunities for domestic exchange programs across the U.S. and Canada, enabling students to experience new academic and cultural environments without going abroad. Connect with representatives, ask questions, and explore the possibilities of expanding your college experience through NSE. Visit our website for event details and discover how you can gain valuable perspectives while staying closer to home!
  • Hear about these campuses:
    1. U of New Orleans
    2. Cleveland State U (OH)
    3. San Jose State U (CA)
    4. U of Memphis (TN)
    5. Florida International U
    6. U of Minnesota Twin Cities

Please register here. Full schedule may be found here

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

• 9:00-10:00am HST @ Zoom | NSE Virtual Fair – Spanish Immersion in Puerto Rico
  Join us for the National Student Exchange (NSE) Virtual Fair as part of International Education Week! This online event offers a fantastic chance to learn about NSE’s opportunities for domestic exchange programs across the U.S. and Canada, enabling students to experience new academic and cultural environments without going abroad. Connect with representatives, ask questions, and explore the possibilities of expanding your college experience through NSE. Visit our website for event details and discover how you can gain valuable perspectives while staying closer to home!
  • Hear about these campuses:
    1. U of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
    2. U of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
    3. Inter American U of Puerto Rico, Barranquitas

Please register here. Full schedule may be found here.

• 9:00-10:15am HST @ Academic Resource Center, Room 114 (Green Room), Agricultural Engineering Institute, 3131 Maile Way
  10:30-11:45 HST am via Zoom
  Community Dialogues, Code-Switching
  Join us for an engaging session on Code-Switching as part of International Education Week! Code-switching is a powerful strategy people use to adapt their self-presentation across various cultural and social contexts. Often shaped by societal expectations and norms, this adaptation can involve shifting aspects of one’s identity—such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, socioeconomic background, or disability status. In this session, we’ll explore how individuals navigate different spaces, moving from casual interactions with friends to more formal settings, and how these shifts enrich our understanding of cultural diversity and global perspectives. Don’t miss this opportunity to dive into a meaningful discussion on identity, social expectations, and the power of adaptability! (This session will be offered in two formats; in-person and or via Zoom)

Please sign up here.

• 10:00-11:00am HST @ Zoom | NSE Virtual Fair – Island Campuses: Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, Hawai’i
  Join us for the National Student Exchange (NSE) Virtual Fair as part of International Education Week! This online event offers a fantastic chance to learn about NSE’s opportunities for domestic exchange programs across the U.S. and Canada, enabling students to experience new academic and cultural environments without going abroad. Connect with representatives, ask questions, and explore the possibilities of expanding your college experience through NSE. Visit our website for event details and discover how you can gain valuable perspectives while staying closer to home!
  • Hear about these campuses:
    1. U of Hawaii at Manoa
    2. U of the Virgin Islands- St. Thomas
    3. U of the Virgin Islands- St. Croix
    4. U of Guam

Please register here. Full schedule may be found here.

• 10a-2pm HST @ Queen Liliuokalani Center (QLC) 113 | Mākeke Lā Kū’oko’a
  Support Hawaiian-owned businesses this holiday season! Stop by and shop at Hawaiian businesses owned by current UH system students & UH system alumni!

• 11:00-12:00pm HST @ Zoom | NSE Virtual Fair – NSE & Your Major: NSE CAN work for you!
  From Psychology to Biosystems Engineering, we will walk you through the process of selecting NSE campuses based on your academic interests and/or needs as well as working with your academic advisor.

Visit our website for event details and discover how you can gain valuable perspectives while staying closer to home!

Please register here. Full schedule may be found here.

• 1-2:30 HST @ Zoom | Booktalk – The Collapse of Heaven The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880
  

  Wielded between two political entities of opposing ideologies, the Taiping Civil War (1851–1864) is one of the most devastating civil wars in human history. What is the effect of the confluence of political discourses? How to make sense of an individual’s historical existence during political turbulence? How did the protracted war shatter late imperial Chinese literary and cultural paradigms?

  
  

  The Collapse of Heaven shows that under extreme violence, late imperial Chinese literary and cultural paradigms began to unravel, giving rise to new modes of sentiment and expression that mark the beginning of Chinese literary modernity. Huan Jin examines a broad range of genres that belong to both the private and public domains of the war: official propaganda, religious texts, local history, personal collections, personal accounts, and creative works such as novels, plays, and short stories. In these texts, she traces a long literary tradition of writings on military and political violence dating back to the late Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) and especially the Ming-Qing dynastic transition. In addition, she emphasizes how this catastrophic event is mediated through material forms of placards, manuscripts, and printed books. Ultimately, Jin argues that writings revolving around the Taiping War evince the crumbling of the traditional political, literary, and cultural structures figured in the phrase “collapse of Heaven.”

  

  Discussants: 

  Emily Mokros, Associate Professor of history at the University of Kentucky

  Scott W Gregory, Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, the University of Arizona

  
  

  Co-Sponsor: Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education, UHM

• 3pm HST @ Zoom | Pathways to Learning: Supporting Pakistan’s Out-of-School Children” 
  Supporting Pakistan’s Out-of-School Children” with Ms. Kiran Peter, and moderated by José Barzola—– Session: Join us to learn about the Weaving People to Grow Foundation that initiated a Non-Formal Education Centre in 2023 to educate children and also give them peace education. In Pakistan the number of out-of-school children is alarmingly increasing particularly after COVID-19 and the deadly floods in 2022.

Please register here.

• 7:00-9:00pm HST @ Art Building 132/Art Auditorium | Khmer Traditional Ceramic Artist: Mary Liven – Documentary Film
  A documentary film, directed and produced by Viol Sungkriem, “Khmer Traditional Ceramic Artist” is based on traditional ceramist, Mary Liven. He has played a major role in sharing Cambodian art and culture with audiences in the USA. He is recognized for his exemplary artistic creativity and his contribution to Khmer culture and its art.

This is a free event, no registration required, and in-person only.

Thursday, November 21, 2024

• 9am-5pm HST @ Imin Center | Pi’o Summit Hulihia 
  “Hulihia” refers to an overturning or complete change – a concept that aptly describes the transformative power of community leadership in times of crisis. This year’s Pi’o Summit will bring together community organizers, scholars, activists, and survivors to explore how communities rise to demonstrate resilience and leadership in the wake of devastating events.
  Join us to engage in crucial discussion on how our indigenous knowledge, practices and values guide us through crisis and healing.

Register for FREE here.

• 2:30pm HST @ Zoom | Cross-Cultural Conversations, #MySDGDream: Sustainable Development Goals and MeWe’re excited to present a unique collaboration with a classroom at Eikei University in Hiroshima, open to anyone in Hawaii! This session brings together 33 students from diverse backgrounds across Japan, as well as international students from Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam, for a truly global exchange of ideas. The format includes a 40-minute interactive workshop led by our guest speaker, followed by 30 minutes of student presentations responding to the topic, and concludes with a 20-minute Q&A session. Join us for this engaging cross-cultural experience to learn, share, and connect with students from across the globe!

Please register here.

• 5:00-7:00 pm HST | Hemenway Hall Courtyard | Makana O Mānoa
  The Campus Center Board Activities Council is inviting everyone to join us with our Makana o Mānoa event to celebrate Hawaiian culture. Enjoy the Hawaiian plate dinner with lie music and hula performance, as well as ribbon lei and card making!Food will be handed out for FREE for UH Mānoa students, and $5 (CASH ONLY) for public and UH System students while supplies last. If you are a UH Mānoa student, please make sure to bring your valid UH Mānoa student ID.Menu are as follows:

  Mochiko Chicken
  Steamed White Rice
  Okinawa Sweet Potato
  HaupiaLau Lau
  Kalua Pork
  Chicken Long Rice
  Steamed Rice
  Okinawa Sweet Potato
  Haupia

  Vegan Hamburger Steak
  Vegan Burger served with white rice and a vegan gravy
  Okinawa Sweet Potato Salad
  Vegan Haupia

Friday, November 22, 2024 

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